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Carnegie Conversations

Each term since 1999, the Center for Academic Excellence hosts a "Carnegie Conversation" event, open to all, on topics of Teaching and Learning. Originally created by the Carnegie Foundation, these conversations were intended to get more universities to talk about improving teaching, with the aim of promoting the scholarship of teaching and learning, and to promote teaching excellence and effectiveness. All events begin at 3:00 and break for wine and cheese at 4:30 p.m.  See below for resources from past Conversations.

"Teaching in the Age of Twitter" with Richard Miller

Thursday, September 22, 2011
Professor Miller is the author of As if Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education (1998) and Writing at the End of the World (2005). His articles have appeared in the journals College English, CCC: College Composition and Communication, JAC: A Journal of Advanced Composition, WPA: Writing Program Administration Journal, and Pedagogy, as well as in the collections Composition Studies in the 21st Century: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future, Teaching/Writing in the Late Age of Print, and Professing in the Contact Zone: Bringing Theory and Practice Together. He is also the co-editor, with Kurt Spellmeyer, of The New Humanities Reader (2nd edition, 2006) and co-author of the web site newhum.com.
     
 

"ePortfolio and Generative Learning" with Melissa Peet

Thursday, April 14, 2011

  
 

Peet is the Academic Director for the Integrative Learning and Mportfolio Initiative, Office of the Provost. She also holds the position of Assistant Research Scientist, Periodontics and Oral Medicine, at the University of Michigan.

In order to learn for life, students must develop the capacity to identify the knowledge and skills they are gaining directly from life. This is not easy. Th e knowledge people gain from life experience is largely tacit and unconscious in nature, and is therefore very diffi cult to identify and share with others. Although many scholars believe tacit knowledge is essential for innovation, creativity, competent practice and lifelong learning, this knowledge is largely ignored in higher education curriculum. Dr. Peet will describe the principles, research and practices related to “Generative Learning”- a teaching, assessment, and e-portfolio methodology that supports students in integrating the formal (conscious) knowledge they’ve gained from academic courses, with the tacit (unconscious) insights, knowledge and skills they’ve acquired from life experience. View Dr. Peet's slide show here.

 
     
  

"Blended Learning: Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education" with Charles "Chuck" Dziuban

Thursday, September 23, 2010

  
   
 

Dziuban is Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Since 1996, he has directed the impact evaluation of UCF’s distributed learning initiative examining student and faculty outcomes as well as gauging the impact of online courses on the university. He has co-authored or edited the Handbook of Blended Learning Environments, Educating the Net Generation, and Blended Learning: Research Perspectives. In 2005, Chuck received the Sloan Consortium award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Learning by an Individual. In 2007, he was appointed to the National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Policy Council.


To view a full video recording of this Carnegie Conversation, please click 'play' on the image below.

 
   
Making Student Learning Public: A Vision of Students Today (Previously featured as part of Winter 09 Carnegie Conversation: A Vision of Students Today: Academia 2.0)